Re: amazon's back orders [was: Re: FLASH: Flash 4 Bible - Amazon?]

[Neal Cabage]

huh?  I just ordered the book from Amazon yesterday and they sent me a message

sayingit was dropped in the mail today.


-N


Jason Bouwmeester wrote:


> I believe there was only an initial printing of 5000 copies... am I wrong?

> Anyone?

>

> jb

>

> -----Original Message-----

>

From: Conyers, Ernest [ConyersEHcdm [dot] com (mailto:ConyersEHcdm [dot] com)]

> Sent: Friday, February 25, 2000 4:32 PM

>

To: flasherchinwag [dot] com

> Subject: RE: amazon's back orders [was: Re: FLASH: Flash 4 Bible -

> Amazon? ]

>

> is this book really that good that there is a big back order on it?

> What is your take on the book?

>

> Ec.

>

> -----Original Message-----

>

From: fritz [fritziceinc [dot] com (mailto:fritziceinc [dot] com)]

> Sent: Friday, February 25, 2000 3:04 PM

>

To: flasherchinwag [dot] com

> Subject: amazon's back orders [was: Re: FLASH: Flash 4 Bible - Amazon?]

>

> hi folx, thought i'd drop in to give some real numbers about amazon's

> order fulfillment. i have about 250 orders on record that came from my

> site. of those, 132 have been shipped. i don't know if they shipped them

> according to date-of-order or randomly.

>

> amazon seems to be shipping about 20-30 orders a day from my list of

> back orders, but of course, they're receiving and shipping orders that i

> don't know about as well (i only know of the ones that were placed

> through my site).

>

> so, if you ordered the book through my site and you still haven't

> received it, you will likely be getting it in the next week or two.

>

> if you don't get it in that time, make sure to write amazon to find out

> if they have run out of copies from the first printing. if they have,

> you may want to snag one from a bookstore instead, or ask them exactly

> when the copies from the 2nd printing will arrive.

>

> hope that helps clear things up...

>

> colin

>

> // sig

> <moock>colin</moock>

>

> ----- Original Message -----

>

From: "Jeremy Pinkham" <JeremyPZYDIGO [dot] COM>

>

To: <flasherchinwag [dot] com>

> Sent: Friday, February 25, 2000 1:27 PM

> Subject: RE: FLASH: Flash 4 Bible - Amazon?

>

> John Olson wrote:

>

> "Are people receiving their Flash 4 Bible's from Amazon? My order is

> still showing 1 to 2 weeks."

>

> This was the case with me.  I noticed the discrepancy between their

> ordering

> page for the book, which lists availability as shipping in 24 hours, and

> my

> account page, which showed 1 to 2 weeks.  I then called them, and their

> customer service dept. told me that I had been placed on the "reorder

> list,"

> that copies had come in but they had run out.  I regarded this as an

> inadequate excuse given that I had preordered the book on December 1st.

>

> Apologies to Colin Moock -- I ordered it through your site to give you

> that

> Amazon commission, but this kind of customer service on Amazon's part

> drove

> me to cancel my order.  I'm going to buy it locally.

>

> --

>

> Jeremy Pinkham

> Multimedia Developer

> Zydigo Technologies

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